![]() There are a few scripts and tools to help you migrate from Evernote to Apple Notes, but I opted to migrate most of my notes manually unless they were purely text-based, which meant this was a pretty time-consuming experiment. For now, I’m dealing with this by sub-folders, but I hope Apple considers adding tags in the future. Tags – I didn’t use tags extensively in Evernote, but they were helpful in grouping things by topic without having to create a full-blown notebook.Surprisingly, Apple’s own Mail apps also lack any ability to share to Notes. I frequently save important emails for reference, so this is one of my most frustrating features to lose. Saving Email Content – My mail client of choice, Airmail, has native support for sharing content to Evernote, but surprisingly not Apple Notes. ![]() With Apple Notes, you can’t actually get a link to a note unless you pretend to share the note with someone. Note Links – I like to include links to other notes in my notes, as well as within Omnifocus tasks and projects.That being said, I was noticing Evernote’s Web Clipper had been doing some odd things to some of my clipped websites, so maybe not all is lost. ![]() #Apple mail to evernote export pdfApple Notes can only save links to websites not a full page unless you do a web archive or save it as a PDF which requires a few additional steps. Evernote’s Web Clipper – It’s really hard to come anywhere close to Evernote’s Web Clipper.(The fact that Apple’s storing these notes in a database could also be a real pain if I ever need to get my notes out of Apple Notes, but I’m going to choose not to think about that right now because Evernote’s no better.) For now, I’m searching my notes using Spotlight, which means remembering a separate keyboard shortcut. Unfortunately, I use Alfred, and for whatever reason, Apple has chosen to store notes in a database that seems to be ever changing preventing any Alfred workflows from keeping up. Searching Notes – You’d think searching notes stored in the stock notes app would be easy for a Mac, and if you use Spotlight, it is.As a result, I was already using other apps, including Apple Notes to do any sort of Apple Pencil work. Apple Pencil Support – Evernote claims to have Apple Pencil support but it’s horribly laggy and a real pain to use.As long as you’re adding folders from a Mac, Apple doesn’t seem to care how many levels you want to have. Folder Hierarchy – I don’t need crazy folder structures for my notes, but Evernote’s insistence on a two-level hierarchy forced me to adopt some weird workarounds including prefixing my notebooks and using tags as a way to add additional levels.(Evernote, if you’re listening, please let users with only one account hide the account switcher in the sidebar.) Apple Notes brings me back to a much more minimal design. Simplicity of Design – I really started to notice the feature bloat of Evernote.Sharing Notes with Others – Sure Evernote allows you to share notes, but none of my friends or family use Evernote, so the feature was lost on me, and a big reason I was stuck using Apple Notes. ![]()
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